***Eight small teeth found in an Israeli cave raise the possibility that modern humans originated in Israel and not Africa

***Eight small teeth found in an Israeli cave raise the possibility that modern humans originated in Israel and not Africa

The teeth date to the Middle Pleistocene and are similar in size and shape to teeth attributed to hominids from other sites in Israel, such as Skhul and Qafzeh. Researchers excavated these latest remains from Qesem Cave in central Israel.

"The Qesem teeth come from a time period between 200,000 to 400,000 years ago when human remains from the Middle East are very scarce," co-author Rolf Quam said in a Binghamton University press....

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